curtate

First attested in 1676; borrowed from Latin curtātus, perfect passive participle of curtō (“to shorten”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

curtate (comparative more curtate, superlative most curtate)

1. Shortened, having been shortened.

   Synonyms: truncate, truncated

2. (astronomy) Describing any distance measured in the ecliptic plane between the Sun (or Earth) and the orthogonal projection of an astronomical object (particularly another planet) onto said plane.
3. (actuarial science, of a lifetime random variable) Rounded down.
4. (mathematics) Describing a trochoid as traced from a point within a circle.

• cut-rate

curtāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of curtō